The Yin mountains can be found in this desert's eastern ranges, while to its south are the Helan Mountains, also known as the Alashans. The expansion of this desert has resulted in calls for the planting of a Green Wall, and there is controversy as to whether its western reaches belong to this desert or are the separate (*) Taklamakan Desert. Those reaches include a salt lake used as a nuclear testing site, Lop Nor, while a fossil of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor locked in combat was found in this desert bounded by the ? Altai Mountains in the north. This desert is a result of a rain shad
The Yin mountains can be found in this desert's eastern ranges, while to its south are the Helan Mountains, also known as the Alashans. The expansion of this desert has resulted in calls for the planting of a Green Wall, and there is controversy as to whether its western reaches belong to this desert or are the separate (*) Taklamakan Desert. Those reaches include a salt lake used as a nuclear testing site, Lop Nor, while a fossil of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor locked in combat was found in this desert bounded by the ? Altai Mountains in the north. This desert is a result of a rain shadow created by an area including Qinghai province the Tibetan Plateau. For 10 points, name this largest desert in Asia, which covers much of northern China and southern Mongolia.
The Yin mountains can be found in this desert's eastern ranges, while to its south are the Helan Mountains, also known as the Alashans.
{Gobi} Desert